The university has agreed to reimburse the hundred dollar housing fee to all students affected by these scheduling errors. Your participation ensured that this oversight was corrected and that our concerns were finally validated. Please monitor your student accounts for the processed refund.
After returning GCU students had to pay an additional $100 this year to secure housing and create a roommate group to live with for the 2015-2016 school year, GCU has failed to allow this. Most of the housing groups created have had to split up due to the Housing Department granting priority to several groups/athletes and time slot prioritization to those groups mentioned. As GCU gave the false hope that seniors would be given priority for housing slots and the false hope that students could potentially live with a group you handpicked, this has not turned out to be the case.Additionally, we were led to believe that the apartments on campus were for upperclassmen, as was such last year and students were not informed otherwise. Many new transfer students, freshman honor students and athletes, as well as sophomores, in the GCU designated priority groups, were allowed to reside in the upperclassman apartment housing, prior to the seniors’ time slots.Because of this, only dorms were left for seniors to pick from and the groups of four roommates we signed up to live with have also had to split up due to the limited spaces left in the dorms. This has caused many of the upperclassmen to have to choose random roommates they don’t know or choose to live off campus, at a higher cost for housing. Due to giving students the false perception for housing and priority for seniors, GCU needs to refund the $100 dollars back to the students. This will not correct the errors that the Housing Department has made in yet another year of admissions, but may begin to appease the frustrated students and parents who feel mislead.
I have been reviewing the stories many of you have shared regarding your housing assignments and the unexpected costs incurred. These accounts provide necessary evidence as I prepare to present our concerns directly to the administration. Please continue to document your experiences so that the full scope of this issue remains clear.
March 27, 2015
The momentum behind this petition highlights the widespread frustration regarding the current housing allocation process. Your collective response demonstrates that the demand for accountability and transparency remains strong.
Reached 100 supporters
March 27, 2015
32 Comments
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Kels
11 years ago
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I am really disappointed that I am spending my senior year in a dorm:( like really GCU I am so sick of you guys giving everything to underclassmen. You gave us seniors no seniority rights and that is so unfair:(
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Roselli Marsall
11 years ago
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I'm 24 and I live in an apartment on campus right now. I'm going to spend my last semester of my senior year at GCU in a dorm sharing a room with an 18 year old. This is messed up.
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Lindsey Thien
11 years ago
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Seniors should get seniority! underclassman should not be able to live in the aprtments they are not ready for this type of lifestyle maturity wise. they are usually the ones setting off the fire alarms! just when I was about to get to live where I want with who I want and then the system is broken once again! I haven't gotten to live with who I want for two years and when I finally got to we ended up in a dorm. seniors need to live in apartments to know what its like after college
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Riley ROBERTSON
11 years ago
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ridiculous that I have to spend so much money a year just to get over taken by athletes band and "honor" students. It's complete crap and I'm fed up with housing and residence life.
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Shelby Barter
11 years ago
Featured
GCU, if you take the time to examine this petition here are a few solutions to the housing issue. you can remove underclassmen from apartment - style living to allow upperclassmen a chance to live in the dorms that were set aside for them or you can lease more rooms at Roosevelt Point. If this doesn't suit your taste, then allow students to retain the full amount of their scholarships as they search for apartments off campus.
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Brittany Mckinney
11 years ago
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have to stay in a dorm instead of roosevelt point like I intended to because all the rooms are filled. I'm roomed with three random girls, so my senior year won't be too special.
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The university has agreed to reimburse the hundred dollar housing fee to all students affected by these scheduling errors. Your participation ensured that this oversight was corrected and that our concerns were finally validated. Please monitor your student accounts for the processed refund.
After returning GCU students had to pay an additional $100 this year to secure housing and create a roommate group to live with for the 2015-2016 school year, GCU has failed to allow this. Most of the housing groups created have had to split up due to the Housing Department granting priority to several groups/athletes and time slot prioritization to those groups mentioned. As GCU gave the false hope that seniors would be given priority for housing slots and the false hope that students could potentially live with a group you handpicked, this has not turned out to be the case.Additionally, we were led to believe that the apartments on campus were for upperclassmen, as was such last year and students were not informed otherwise. Many new transfer students, freshman honor students and athletes, as well as sophomores, in the GCU designated priority groups, were allowed to reside in the upperclassman apartment housing, prior to the seniors’ time slots.Because of this, only dorms were left for seniors to pick from and the groups of four roommates we signed up to live with have also had to split up due to the limited spaces left in the dorms. This has caused many of the upperclassmen to have to choose random roommates they don’t know or choose to live off campus, at a higher cost for housing. Due to giving students the false perception for housing and priority for seniors, GCU needs to refund the $100 dollars back to the students. This will not correct the errors that the Housing Department has made in yet another year of admissions, but may begin to appease the frustrated students and parents who feel mislead.
I have been reviewing the stories many of you have shared regarding your housing assignments and the unexpected costs incurred. These accounts provide necessary evidence as I prepare to present our concerns directly to the administration. Please continue to document your experiences so that the full scope of this issue remains clear.
March 27, 2015
The momentum behind this petition highlights the widespread frustration regarding the current housing allocation process. Your collective response demonstrates that the demand for accountability and transparency remains strong.
Reached 100 supporters
March 27, 2015
32 Comments
K
Kels
11 years ago
Featured
I am really disappointed that I am spending my senior year in a dorm:( like really GCU I am so sick of you guys giving everything to underclassmen. You gave us seniors no seniority rights and that is so unfair:(
R
Roselli Marsall
11 years ago
Featured
I'm 24 and I live in an apartment on campus right now. I'm going to spend my last semester of my senior year at GCU in a dorm sharing a room with an 18 year old. This is messed up.
L
Lindsey Thien
11 years ago
Featured
Seniors should get seniority! underclassman should not be able to live in the aprtments they are not ready for this type of lifestyle maturity wise. they are usually the ones setting off the fire alarms! just when I was about to get to live where I want with who I want and then the system is broken once again! I haven't gotten to live with who I want for two years and when I finally got to we ended up in a dorm. seniors need to live in apartments to know what its like after college
R
Riley ROBERTSON
11 years ago
Featured
ridiculous that I have to spend so much money a year just to get over taken by athletes band and "honor" students. It's complete crap and I'm fed up with housing and residence life.
S
Shelby Barter
11 years ago
Featured
GCU, if you take the time to examine this petition here are a few solutions to the housing issue. you can remove underclassmen from apartment - style living to allow upperclassmen a chance to live in the dorms that were set aside for them or you can lease more rooms at Roosevelt Point. If this doesn't suit your taste, then allow students to retain the full amount of their scholarships as they search for apartments off campus.
B
Brittany Mckinney
11 years ago
Featured
have to stay in a dorm instead of roosevelt point like I intended to because all the rooms are filled. I'm roomed with three random girls, so my senior year won't be too special.
I am really disappointed that I am spending my senior year in a dorm:( like really GCU I am so sick of you guys giving everything to underclassmen. You gave us seniors no seniority rights and that is so unfair:(